Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

Sara Paretsky

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

William Greider

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

William Greider

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

William Greider

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

William Greider

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

William Blum

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

William Dean Howells

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

William Dean Howells

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Mary Garden

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

Jhumpa Lahiri

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Gregg Easterbrook

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

Gregg Easterbrook

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Gregg Easterbrook

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Gregg Easterbrook

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

Gregg Easterbrook

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.